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Yoshinobu Akiha, Susono JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090235521	Shield harness manufacturing method - A shield harness manufacturing device includes a sheet feeder, a conductor-winding mold, an insulator-winding mold, and a control unit. The conductor-winding mold winds an ALS sheet as an electrically conductive sheet around a wire bundle including at least one covered wire and at least one drain wire. The insulator-winding mold folds a PET sheet as an electrically insulating sheet into two halves and then wraps the ALS-wound wire bundle in the PET sheet over the entire length of the wire bundle. The sheet feeder feeds the ALS sheet into the conductor-winding mold through which the covered wire and the drain wire are passed. The ALS sheet is wound around the covered wire and the drain wire over the entire length of the wires. Thereafter, the ALS-wound wire bundle is inserted into the insulator-winding mold and the sheet feeder feeds the PET sheet into the insulator-winding mold.	09-24-2009

Yoshinobu Akiyama, Akita JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090074934	Processed rice food having active oxygen-scavenging potential, food having hightened active oxygen-scavenging potential and method of producing the same - The object of the invention was achieved by a processed rice food having an active oxygen-scavenging potential that is produced by preparing a liquid mixture of brown rice powder, soy bean, soymilk or tea powder, and water and heating the mixture at 60 to 90° C. for 30 to 50 minutes.	03-19-2009

Yoshinobu Amano, Shimotsuma JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090080794	IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MICROCOMPUTER, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An image processing device that receives pixel-unit image data in a plurality of frames in time series and performs image processing, the image data being captured by an imaging section, the image processing device including a brightness change detection section that integrates pixel values or pixel components relating to luminance of at least part of pixels of the received image data in each of the frames to calculate an integrated value, compares the integrated value with a given comparison target value, and detects a change in brightness of an image in each of the frames based on a comparison result.	03-26-2009

Yoshinobu Aoki, Tochigi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100323090	METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ORALLY RAPIDLY DISINTEGRATING TABLET COMPRISING IMIDAFENACIN AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT - The present invention herein provides an imidafenacin-containing orally rapidly disintegrating tablet which is excellent in the photostability.	12-23-2010
20110002988	ORALLY RAPIDLY DISINTEGRATING TABLET COMPRISING IMIDAFENACIN - Provided herein is an imidafenacin-containing orally rapidly disintegrating tablet which is excellent in the photostability.	01-06-2011

Yoshinobu Arisumi, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100145850	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An electronic money server groups a parent who owns a parent mobile phone and children who own child mobile phones to be registered as a family, and credit information of the parent is also registered. When the child accesses the electronic money server by using the child mobile phone and specifies a money amount to request family charge, the electronic money server requests the parent mobile phone for permission of the family charge. When the parent grants the family charge, the electronic money server allows the parent mobile phone to decrease a value by the money amount specified by the child and to make the family settlement, and allows the child mobile phone to increase the value by this money amount and to effect the family charge. Further, the child mobile phone can accept issue of credit from a credit server on credit of the parent, thereby effecting the family charge.	06-10-2010

Yoshinobu Asokawa, Nara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110096982	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PROJECTING PATTERN - A pattern generating apparatus includes a sequence generating unit and an image data generating unit. The sequence generating unit generates a sequence formed by terms having M-value numeric values. The image data generating unit generates the image data by converting each numeric value of the sequence into a gray-level value according to each numeric value, and the sequence is generated by the sequence generating unit. The sequence generating unit generates the sequence such that vectors expressed by sub-sequences have different directions for the sub-sequence constituting the generated sequence.	04-28-2011

Yoshinobu Asokawa, Kasugai-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090018711	DETECTING DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Information necessary to control a vehicle is to be effectively detected in accordance with a situation. A supposition situation selecting section selects a supposition situation closest to the present situation of an own vehicle from a plurality of pre-supposed supposition situations on the basis of situation information acquired from a situation information acquiring unit and a supposition situation selection table through a situation information input I/F circuit. A detection process selecting portion selects a detection process to be actually performed from detection processes which can be performed by each detecting portion of a target detecting section on the basis of the selected supposition situation and a detection process selection table. The invention is applicable to an in-vehicle image processing device.	01-15-2009

Yoshinobu Fuchizaki, Ome-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100157473	MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE - According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive includes a magnetic disk including a magnetic recording layer exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, a write head including a core including a main pole and a plurality of return poles in a track direction and a direction other than the track direction with respect to the main pole, and a coil wound around corresponding to each return pole, and a read head including a magnetoresistive element and a pair of shields sandwiching the magnetoresistive element from front and rear in the track direction.	06-24-2010
20110075294	MAGNETIC HEAD AND DISK DRIVE WITH THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a magnetic head for perpendicular recording includes a slider includes a facing surface, and a head section on the slider. The head section includes a main pole, a recording coil configured to excite the main pole, a write/shield pole opposed to a trailing side of the main pole across a write gap, and side shields disposed individually on opposite sides of the main pole transversely relative to a track to face side faces of the main pole and magnetically separated from the main pole. That part of a side face of each of the side shields opposed to each corresponding side face of the main pole which is located at the shortest distance from a leading end of each of the side faces of the main pole, on the facing surface, includes a permeability lower than that of the other part of the side shield.	03-31-2011

Yoshinobu Goto, Nagoya-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110062144	CERAMIC HEATER AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A resistive heating element	03-17-2011

Yoshinobu Goto, Nagoya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080237216	HEATING DEVICE - A first heating element and a second heating element, which are capable of individually controlling temperatures thereof, are embedded in a ceramic base. Each of the first heating element and the second heating element is formed into a spiral shape so as not to contact the other from a central portion of the base to an outer circumferential portion thereof in substantially the same plane parallel to a heating surface of the base. One of the first and second heating elements includes a high heating density portion on the central portion side of the base, and a low heating density portion on the peripheral portion side of the base, and the other of the first and second heating elements includes a low heating density portion on the central portion side of the base, and a high heating density portion on the peripheral portion side of the base.	10-02-2008
20080237221	HEATING DEVICE - A heating device made of ceramics includes: a plate-like heating base having a heating surface; and a hollow cylindrical support member bonded to a back surface of the heating base. A concave surface portion that connects the back surface of the heating base and an outer surface of the support member smoothly to each other is formed in the vicinity of an outer end of a bonding interface between the heating base and the support member. On a cross section including an axis of the support member, the concave surface portion has a curved line of an arc of a ellipsoid in which a minor axis direction is parallel to an axis direction of the support member.	10-02-2008
20090230636	ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK - An electrostatic chuck includes (a) a cooling device serving as an RF electrode, including a gas supply port penetrating through the cooling device, the gas supply port extending from one main surface to the other main surface, and a main counter bore portion having a diameter larger than that of the gas supply port, the main counter bore portion provided in an opening of the gas supply port; (b) an arc prevention member buried in the main counter bore portion and made of an insulating member, wherein a gas path is provided, the gas path is configured to communicate with the gas supply port; and (c) an electrostatic chuck body arranged on the cooling device, defining a work mounting surface on a top surface of the electrostatic chuck body, provided with a pore in communication with the gas supply port via the gas path.	09-17-2009

Yoshinobu Hashimoto, Nishinomiya-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090201106	HARMONIC SUPPRESSION RESONATOR, HARMONIC PROPAGATION BLOCKING FILTER, AND RADAR APPARATUS - A harmonic suppression resonator comprises a plurality of waveguide resonators that resonate in TE mode, in which harmonic suppression resonator, adjoining resonators are coupled via a plurality of coupling windows. Four coupling windows	08-13-2009

Yoshinobu Higuchi, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090093414	Hyaluronic Acid-Methotrexate Conjugate - An object of the present invention is to provide a hyaluronic acid-methotrexate conjugate useful as a therapeutic drug for joint disorders. There is provided a hyaluronic acid-methotrexate conjugate useful for the treatment of joint disorders, wherein methotrexate is conjugated with a hydroxy group of hyaluronic acid through a linker containing a peptide chain consisting of 1 to 8 amino acids, and the linker is conjugated with the hyaluronic acid through a carbamate group.	04-09-2009
20090275030	CELL CALCIFICATION SUPPRESSING PROTEINS, AND GENES OF THE PROTEINS - This invention provides cell-calcification inhibitory proteins as well as genes encoding the proteins. Based on the discovery of a novel isoform gene of the c-erg gene (herein referred to as “C-11 gene”) which is an erg gene derived from chickens, the nucleotide sequence of the gene has been determined, and then the expression of a protein encoded by such gene (herein referred to as “C-11 protein”) has been confirmed. Further, it has been discovered that when the c-erg or C-11 gene is introduced into osteoblasts, the calcification of the cells is inhibited.	11-05-2009
20100310556	THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR PRURITUS - The present inventors isolated clone BM095 from a human antibody phage library, which had a strong growth inhibitory activity in the IL-31-dependent Ba/F3 cell growth assay system. When administered to pruritus model mice, the anti-mouse NR10 neutralizing antibody exhibited a marked symptom-suppressing effect. Thus, it was revealed that anti-NR10 neutralizing antibodies are useful as therapeutic agents for pruritus.	12-09-2010
20110098450	Antibody Molecules - The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising second-generation molecules that are superior than TOCILIZUMAB, by altering the amino acid sequences of the variable and constant regions of TOCILIZUMAB, which is a humanized anti-IL-6 receptor IgG1 antibody, to enhance the antigen-neutralizing ability and increase the pharmacokinetics, so that the therapeutic effect is exerted with a less frequency of administration, and the immunogenicity, safety and physicochemical properties (stability and homogeneity) are improved. The present invention also provides methods for producing these pharmaceutical compositions. The present inventors have successfully generated second-generation molecules that are superior to TOCILIZUMAB by appropriately combining amino acid sequence alterations in the CDR domains, variable regions, and constant regions.	04-28-2011

Yoshinobu Hirose, Mie-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080223139	Combustion pressure sensor - A combustion pressure sensor for detecting a pressure in the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes a seal member sealing a clearance between a housing and a pressure transmitting member slidably inserted through an axial hole of the housing. The seal member is fixed to the housing at a position forward of a load detecting section disposed between the housing and the pressure transmitting member. The seal member is not fixed to the pressure transmitting member.	09-18-2008

Yoshinobu Hirose, Inabe-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090056660	GLOW PLUG WITH COMBUSTION PRESSURE SENSOR - A glow plug with combustion pressure sensor is disclosed having a cover and a housing with which a piezoelectric element is hermetically accommodated. A lead wire having flexibility is employed to supply electric power to a heating member. The lead wire, fixedly connected to the heating member, extends through an insertion bore of the cover and is hermetically bonded to an inner circumferential wall of the insertion bore. When the heating member is axially displaced upon receipt of a combustion pressure, the lead wire flexes to absorb the resulting displacement, causing a joint portion between the cover and the lead wire to have no drag against the displacement. This allows the piezoelectric element to detect the combustion pressure with high precision.	03-05-2009
20090126472	COMBUSTION PRESSURE SENSOR FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A combustion pressure sensor has a cylindrical housing having a fixing functional member fixed to an engines head, and a sealing functional member disposed on the inner side of the fixing member, a transmission member disposed on the inner side of the sealing member through an opening to face a combustion chamber and to be movable along the axial direction, a detecting unit disposed between the sealing member and the transmission member to detect a combustion pressure in the combustion chamber in response to the movement of the transmission member, and a seal member for shielding the opening from the combustion chamber. The members are connected with each other at a connection area such that extension and contraction in the axial direction in each of the functional members is independent of the other one.	05-21-2009

Yoshinobu Hoshino, Hitachinaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080283747	Scanning Electron Microscope and Three-Dimensional Shape Measuring Device That Used It - In three-dimensional shape measurement, a backscattered electron detection signal and selection signal generator in a control section controls, by selection signal, a signal switching section and a frame memory so that: detection signals from respective semiconductor elements are sequentially switched in the signal switching section in synchronization with a scanning frame of an electron beam on a sample; and the detection signals from the respective semiconductor elements can be sequentially recorded in recording addresses in the frame memory which correspond to the respective semiconductor elements. After four electron beam scanning sessions, each image data for three-dimensional shape measurement is recorded in the frame memory, and processed in a computing processing section for three-dimensional shape measurement, and the result can be displayed in a display section. The backscattered electron detection signal and selection signal generator in the control section is configured to include, for example, a counter updated in frame scanning units, and can be composed of a very simple circuit or software.	11-20-2008

Yoshinobu Ichikawa, Gunma JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090162215	COMPRESSOR - A reciprocating compressor in which cylinder bores are formed and a muffler device is provided. The internal space of the muffler device is divided into at least two compartments by a partition wall. A cylindrical body, which allows the two compartments to communicate with each other and has the length of 16 to 50% of the overall length of the internal space, is provided in the partition wall. In particular, the overall length of the internal space of the muffler device is set to be within the range of 100 to 120 mm and the length of the cylindrical body is set to be within the range of 20 to 50 mm. Consequently, the muffler device can effectively attenuate and reduce the pulsation generated from the compressor and can be manufactured at a low cost.	06-25-2009

Yoshinobu Iida, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110032197	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus comprises: a calculation unit configured to calculate differences between the display coordinates of the plurality of target touch marks and the coordinates converted by the conversion unit; a correction unit configured to calculate an average value with reference to the center of the display range from the differences calculated by the calculation unit, and to correct, using the average value, the coordinates converted by the conversion unit so that distances between the reference coordinates and the coordinates converted by the conversion unit become equal to each other; and an update unit configured to calculate new conversion coefficients required to correct displacements between the coordinates corrected by the correction unit and the display coordinates of the plurality of target touch marks, and to update the new conversion coefficients as conversion coefficients used in subsequent touch position detection of the touch panel.	02-10-2011

Yoshinobu Ishii, Shiga JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100260517	Electrophotographic Photosensitive Body and Image Forming Device Having an Electrophotographic Photosensitive Body - A negative charging electrophotographic photosensitive body has a base, a photoconductive layer made of an amorphous silicon compound and formed amorphous silicon compound and formed on the base, a charge injection blocking layer formed on the photoconductive layer, and a surface layer formed on the charge injection blocking layer. The charge injection blocking layer contains at least one element selected from a group of N, O, and C and a group-13 element. The optical absorption coefficient of the charge injection blocking layer is smaller than that of the photoconductive layer, and the difference between the refractive index of the photoconductive layer and that of the charge injection blocking layer is greater than 0 and less than 0.9.	10-14-2010

Yoshinobu Ishii, Higashiomi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100183331	Electrophotographic Photosensitive Body and Image Forming Apparatus Provided with the Same - [Problems] To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive body that reduces non-uniform image density and that can enhance a definition of an image, and an image forming apparatus provided with the same.	07-22-2010
20100224877	Electronic Photosensitive Body and Manufacturing Method for Same, as well as Image Forming Apparatus - Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor which comprises a base material and a photoconductive layer. The photoconductive layer is formed on the base material, and comprises a non-single-crystal material mainly composed of silicon. In the photoconductive layer, with regard to a characteristic energy E (eV) which has the relationship with a light absorption coefficient α (cm	09-09-2010

Yoshinobu Ishii, Higashiomi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090324288	Photoreceptor and Image Forming Apparatus Including the Same - According to an embodiment of the invention, a photoreceptor comprises a conductive substrate; a first semiconductor layer over the conductive substrate; a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer; and a third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer. Each of the first and the third semiconductor layers comprises a p-type semiconductor. The second semiconductor layer has a hole density smaller than the first and the third semiconductor layers.	12-31-2009

Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Wakayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110204301	PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PARTICLES FOR BATTERY - A process of producing positive electrode active material particles for a battery, comprising a step of providing a slurry comprising resin particles, a cationic surfactant and/or a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, lithium complex oxide particles, and a polar solvent; removing the polar solvent from the slurry to give a composition; and firing the composition and at the same time, removing the resin particles from the composition, wherein the cationic surfactant is a quaternary ammonium salt, the polyvinyl alcohol derivative is a polyvinyl alcohol into which a quaternary ammonium salt group has been introduced or which has been substituted by a quaternary ammonium salt group, and the resin particles have an average particle size of 0.1 to 20 μm.	08-25-2011
20110206990	SINTERED LITHIUM COMPLEX OXIDE - A sintered lithium complex oxide characterized in that the sintered lithium complex oxide is constituted by sintering fine particles of a lithium complex oxide, the peak pore size giving the maximum differential pore volume is 0.80-5.00 μm, the total pore volume is 0.10-2.00 mL/g, the average particle size is not less than the above-specified peak pore size but not more than 20 μm, there is a sub-peak giving a differential pore volume not less than 10% of the maximum differential pore volume on the smaller pore size side with respect to the above-specified peak pore size, the pore size corresponding to the sub-peak is more than 0.50 μm but not more than 2.00 μm, the BET specific surface area of the sintered lithium complex oxide is 1.0-10.0 m	08-25-2011

Yoshinobu Iwasaki, Okazaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110213850	RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a technique which prevents description offensive to public order and morals, included in an electronic mail, from meeting the eyes of a receiver. If an electronic mail message is included in a payload part of a data packet delivered from a communication interface	09-01-2011

Yoshinobu Iwasaki, Hamamatsu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110058690	Acoustic Processing Apparatus - An acoustic processing apparatus includes: a connecting unit to which an instructing device is connected; a situation obtaining unit obtaining information indicative of whether a number of apparatuses connected to the instructing device is a plural number or not, from the instructing device; a receiving unit receiving an instruction value from the instructing device; a storage unit in which a set value is stored; a determining unit, in a case where the information indicates that the number of apparatuses connected to the instructing device is a plural number, comparing the instruction and set values, and determines correspondence relationship between the values in accordance with a result of comparison; a changing unit, when the receiving unit receives a instruction value after the correspondence relationship is determined, specifying a set value which corresponds to the instruction value, based on the correspondence relationship, and changes the set value stored in the storage unit to the specified set value; and an acoustic processing unit which applies an acoustic process on an input audio data in accordance with the set value.	03-10-2011

Yoshinobu Katayama, Naruto City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100323243	HYDROGEN-ABSORBING ALLOY FOR ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A hydrogen-absorbing alloy for an alkaline storage battery with high power characteristics and excellent output power stability and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The hydrogen-absorbing alloy for an alkaline storage battery of the invention is represented by AB	12-23-2010

Yoshinobu Katayama, Moriguchi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080299458	HYDROGEN STORAGE ALLOY FOR ALKALINE BATTERY AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AS WELL AS ALKALINE BATTERY - To provide a hydrogen storage alloy for an alkaline battery capable of having high performance of power characteristics much more beyond the related-art range, and a production method thereof, as well as an alkaline battery by investigating the constituent ratios of the A	12-04-2008
20090061316	HYDROGEN STORAGE ALLOY ELECTRODE AND ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY USING THE SAME - A hydrogen storage alloy used in a hydrogen storage alloy electrode	03-05-2009
20090169995	HYDROGEN STORAGE ALLOY AND ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY EMPLOYING HYDROGEN STORAGE ALLOY AS NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL - A hydrogen storage alloy of the present invention includes component A including a rare earth element represented by Ln and magnesium and component B including elements containing at least nickel and aluminum, wherein a primary alloy phase of a hydrogen storage alloy represents an A	07-02-2009
20090191449	ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY - An alkaline storage battery in which an actual reaction area is not reduced after increasing a reaction area is provided. A hydrogen storage alloy negative electrode	07-30-2009

Yoshinobu Kato, Ichinomiya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100206793	SUCTION FILTER AND FUEL SUPPLY DEVICE - A suction filter may comprise a bag-shaped filter member and a passage member. The passage member is disposed in an internal space of the filter member. The passage member has a fuel passage and a plurality of openings, and guides fuel from the internal space to the outside of the internal space. The openings communicate the internal space of the filter member to the fuel passage. When the passage member is cut along a surface thereof perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the passage member in each of the openings, a position on an outer circumferential surface of the passage member in the cut surface, in which the distance between the outer circumferential surface and the filter member is the smallest, is distant in a circumferential direction from a position on the outer circumferential surface where the opening is formed.	08-19-2010
20100332108	FUEL VAPOR PRESSURE MEASURING DEVICE - A fuel vapor pressure measuring device is provided, in a fuel supplying system, with a fuel tank for containing fuel, a fuel pump for supplying the fuel in the fuel tank to an injector, a fuel vapor generating section having a nozzle, a vaporizing chamber, and a venturi and vaporizing, in the vaporizing chamber, fuel by ejecting the fuel from the nozzle and causing the fuel to pass through the venturi, a first fuel path for interconnecting the fuel pump and the injector, a second fuel path having one end connected to the fuel pump and the other end connected to the fuel vapor generating section, a pressure sensor for detecting the pressure in the fuel vapor generating section, and an ECU for calculating the pressure of fuel vapor based on the result of detection by the pressure sensor. The fuel vapor generating section is mounted in the fuel tank.	12-30-2010

Yoshinobu Kawai, Tajimi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080272157	Sliding Nozzle Device and Pouring Device - A fixed plate (	11-06-2008

Yoshinobu Kitamaru, Ealing GB

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100180184	ALBUM EDITING APPARATUS, ALBUM EDITING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention is directed to enabling a user to easily confirm errors that are generated when an electronic album is created in which a mixture of text and images is laid out on a plurality of pages. An apparatus according to the present invention automatically switches whether to display a text entry field on a list or a dialog screen according to a type of a page on which the text entry field exists and an entry status.	07-15-2010

Yoshinobu Kubota, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100136115	Pharmaceutical Titanium Dioxide Composite Allowing Disappearance of Drug Efficacy By Light Irradiation - Disclosed is a titanium dioxide composite material which can be dispersed in an aqueous solvent stably and can be administered to a living body in a simple manner and in which the pharmacological effect of a therapeutic compound carried on the composite material can be eliminated by irradiation with light. Also disclosed is a dispersion product of the composite material. The composite material comprises titanium dioxide which has a photocatalytic activity and a therapeutic compound attached to the titanium dioxide through a hydrophilic polymer. The composite material is stable in an aqueous solvent and can be administered to a living body in a simple manner. After the composite material is administered to a living body, a site on the living body where the pharmacological effect of the therapeutic compound is not needed to be developed can be irradiated with light to induce the light excitation of titanium dioxide at the site, thereby decomposing the therapeutic compound to reduce any adverse side effect of the therapeutic compound.	06-03-2010

Yoshinobu Maeda, Yokkaichi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090279165	Three-terminal optical signal amplifying device - In the three-terminal optical signal amplifying device	11-12-2009
20100238539	OPTICAL SIGNAL AMPLIFYING APPARATUS - An optical signal amplifying apparatus feeding back surrounding light to perform negative feedback optical amplification of a semiconductor optical amplifier is provided that enables a coupling structure to be simplified and miniaturized between the semiconductor optical amplifier and an optical fiber transmitting the output light from the semiconductor optical amplifier by using a fiber grating device. Since a first optical fiber grating device FGD	09-23-2010

Yoshinobu Matsumoto, Tokyo-To JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090128858	Printed Product, Printed Product Detection Method and Detection Apparatus, and Authentication Method and Authentication Apparatus - This invention implements a printed product capable of embedding a variety of information which are unrecognizable by human eyes in image lines included in a security line drawing without decreasing the artistic effect of printed image lines and authenticating the information on the basis of the Fourier-transformed pattern of the printed image lines. This invention provides an information authenticable printed product having a plurality of line drawings in which an image line includes a unit image line including a plurality of image lines arrayed in parallel along a normal direction, and the normal-direction intervals between the plurality of image lines in the unit image line are set in correspondence with information to be embedded, an authentication method, a method of embedding information in the printed product, and an authentication apparatus.	05-21-2009
20110181035	ANTI-COUNTERFEIT PRINTED MATTER - This invention relates to an anti-counterfeit printed matter, including securities such as banknotes, stock certificates, and bonds, various kinds of certificates, and important documents, which requires anti-counterfeit or anti-copy.	07-28-2011

Yoshinobu Meifu, Kawasaki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110117937	PUSH DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVICE SYSTEM, SERVER SYSTEM, AND USER STATION - The present invention relates to a technique of providing a push delivery service. A data center transmits attribute information on positions and radii of areas A through J to a user station. The user station compares the attribute information with a self-predicted position to predict that the user station itself lies in the area A through J. When the user station confirms that the user station lies in the area A through J, and requests the data center for delivery information attached to the area A through J on the basis of a result of confirmation. The data center transmits delivery information to the user station in response to the request. The user station knows itself in one of plural push delivery areas A through J, and decreases the frequency of positioning and pinpoints delivery of information such as shop advertisements is possible.	05-19-2011

Yoshinobu Mocho, Toyama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100052021	SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes: a MOS transistor; a bit line provided above a memory region, and electrically connected to an impurity diffusion layer; a capacitor which has a capacitive insulating film including a ferroelectric material or a high-k material, and is provided at a position higher than that of the bit line; a lower hydrogen barrier film which covers a lower side of the capacitor; an upper hydrogen barrier film which covers lateral and upper sides of the capacitor; an interconnect formed above a peripheral circuit region; and a conductive layer which is formed at a position lower than that of the bit line, and extends from the memory region to the peripheral circuit region when viewed from above, for electrically connecting the bit line and the interconnect to each other.	03-04-2010

Yoshinobu Mori, Omura-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100112213	SUSCEPTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF EPITAXIAL WAFER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF EPITAXIAL WAFER - In a manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing an epitaxial wafer with a wafer being mounted substantially concentrically with a susceptor, a center rod is provided to extend in an up-and-down direction on a side of a non-mounting surface of the susceptor so that its upper end is adjacent to the center of the susceptor. With this arrangement, part of radiation light irradiated toward the susceptor is diffusely reflected by the center rod before reaching the central portion of the susceptor, thereby reducing the amount of the radiation light irradiated to the central portion of the susceptor as well as lowering the temperature of the portion. Since the center rod and the susceptor are not in surface contact, the center rod does not take the heat from the susceptor, thereby suppressing the temperature from decreasing locally at the central portion of the susceptor.	05-06-2010

Yoshinobu Mori, Kobe-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080215229	Method and system for estimating an air-intake amount of an internal combustion engine, and internal combustion engine - A method of estimating an air-intake amount of an internal combustion engine is provided. The method may comprise detecting a fluid energy amount in an interior of an air-intake passage at first and second points in time while an intake valve is closed from a compression stroke to an exhaust stroke, and calculating a predicted air-intake amount using the values of the fluid energy amounts at the first and second points with reference to an air-intake amount calculation map showing a correlation between the values of the fluid energy amounts at the first and second points and the predicted air-intake amount in the intake stroke, the air-intake amount calculation map being pre-created by finding the values of the fluid energy amounts in the air-intake passage at the first and second points and the air-intake amount, for plural running states of the internal combustion engine.	09-04-2008

Yoshinobu Morimoto, Hamamatsu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110074379	DC-DC CONVERTER - A DC-DC converter including a power supply supplying direct current (DC) to an inductor, a switching device controlling the supply of DC from the power supply to the inductor by switching between a conductive state and a disconnected state according to a modulation signal, a signal output device generating the modulation signal for increasing or decreasing a period of the conductive state of the switching device, wherein the signal output device increases or decreases a duty ratio of the modulation signal to increase or decrease the period of the conductive state of the switching device, and a delay device controlling an increase of a duty ratio of the modulation signal, wherein the signal output device outputs the modulation signal with the controlled duty ratio to the switching device, thereby delaying the switching device from reaching a conductive state in which the duty ratio is a value of 1.	03-31-2011

Yoshinobu Motodate, Sendai-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100057249	THERMAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, THERMAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When a substrate is transferred by a holding arm to a multiple tier wafer boat, contact between the holding arm and the substrate is prevented. When the wafer boat is not subjected to a thermal effect, a normal height position of a ring member is obtained by relatively elevating and lowering a transfer base member with respect to the wafer boat. Before a wafer, which is not yet thermally processed, is transferred to the wafer boat, a height position of the corresponding ring member is obtained. By comparing a difference between the normal height position of the ring member and the height position of the ring member before the wafer is transported, with a threshold value, whether to transfer the wafer by the wafer transfer mechanism to the wafer boat can be judged.	03-04-2010

Yoshinobu Murakami, Kobe-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090270313	Method of Treatment for Ischemic Heart Disease - The present invention provides a method of treatment for ischemic heart disease administering a scar formation accelerator containing at least one selected from SFRP2, SFRP4, Midkine, Pleiotrophin and Thymosin beta-10 as an effective ingredient to promote scar formation less fibrosis and retaining elasticity, and thereby improving cardiac function.	10-29-2009

Yoshinobu Nagamasa, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090147100	CAMERA CONTROL APPARATUS, CAMERA CONTROL METHOD, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A camera control apparatus comprises a processor adapted to control a display to display a plurality of sensed images respectively obtained from a plurality of cameras and a transmitter adapted to transmit a command to control another camera to execute color adjustment based on an image signal of a reference region of an image of a reference camera of the images displayed as a list by the processor.	06-11-2009
20100085385	IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image processing apparatus can detect a predetermined target object from image data. The image processing apparatus includes an image zooming unit configured to generate a plurality of pieces of zoomed image data that are mutually different in magnification from the image data input by an image inputting unit, a detection unit configured to extract a partial area from the plurality of pieces of zoomed image data generated by the image zooming unit, and detect the predetermined target object by performing collation to determine whether the extracted partial area coincides with a detection pattern stored in a detected pattern storage unit, and a detected information storage unit configured to store detection information including magnification information of the zoomed image data from which the predetermined target object is detected by the detection unit. In a case where the detection information is stored in the detected information storage unit, the image zooming unit determines a magnification of the zoomed image data based on the detection information and generates at least one piece of zoomed image data whose total number is smaller compared to a case where the detection information is not stored.	04-08-2010

Yoshinobu Nakamura, Chita JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110086924	Method of manufacturing an eutectic crystalline sugar alcohol - A method of manufacturing an eutectic crystalline sorbitol/maltitol that represents a single melting peak obtained by differential scanning calorimetry. The method includes combining a liquid composition containing two or more kinds of the sugar alcohol at a predetermined ratio with a powder containing crystals of the same two or more kinds of the sugar alcohol at substantially the same usage ratio as that of the sugar alcohol to obtain a mixture, and kneading and aging the mixture.	04-14-2011

Yoshinobu Nakamura, Higashihiroshima-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090296017	Line light source device, plane light emission device, plane light source device, and liquid crystal display - In the line light source device and the plane light emission device, first recesses	12-03-2009

Yoshinobu Nakamura, Ebina-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090250864	RECORDING MEDIUM TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording medium transport apparatus includes: plural storage units each storing a recording medium; a transport unit that transports the recording medium from one of the storage units to a recording position where an image is recorded on the recording medium; a memory that stores a reference position of a recording medium prescribed for each storage unit; a measuring unit that measures a position of the transported recording medium; and a movement unit that reads the reference position corresponding to the storage unit that stored the transported recording medium, from the memory, and moves the recording medium according to the difference between the reference position and the measured position such that the position of the recording medium approaches the reference position when the recording medium is located upstream of the recording position in the transport direction thereof.	10-08-2009
20090256308	RECORDING SHEET MOVING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND RECORDING SHEET MOVING METHOD - A recording sheet moving device includes: a moving unit that moves a recording sheet; a recording sheet specifying unit that specifies a length in the transport direction and a weight per unit area of the recording sheet; a first memory configured to record, for each of plural recording sheets, a threshold for a length in the transport direction in association with a weight per unit area; and a movement control unit that retrieves a threshold for a length on the basis of the specified weight per unit area from the first memory, and compares the retrieved threshold for a length and the specified length, to determine whether to cause the moving unit to move the recording sheet, and if it is determined that the recording sheet should be moved, causes the moving unit to move the recording sheet.	10-15-2009
20090257074	RECORDING MATERIAL MOVING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A recording material moving device comprises: a position adjuster that moves a recording material in a direction which is parallel to a recording surface of the recording material and orthogonal to a transporting direction, in an upstream side of a recording position along the transport direction of the recording material; a reference position specifying unit that specifies a reference position; a determination unit that determines whether a range of a predetermined width centered on the reference position exceeds a movable range of the recording material within which the recording material can be moved by the position adjuster; and a controller that causes, if the determination unit determines that the movable range is not exceeded, the position adjuster to sequentially move the recording material within the movable range of the predetermined width centered on the reference position each time a condition for moving the recording material is satisfied.	10-15-2009

Yoshinobu Nakano, Kyoto-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090163282	COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, AND GAME APPARATUS - A game apparatus detects an input position, on an input plane, at which an input operation has been performed. The game apparatus also detects an operation sound that occurs due to the input operation performed on the input plane. The game apparatus evaluates the detected operation sound, and obtains a result of the evaluation (e.g., volume of the operation sound). The game apparatus performs game processing by using the detected input position and the result of the evaluation. This enables the game apparatus to perform more complex processing by using a touch operation as input information, and allows a player to provide more complex instructions based on the touch operation.	06-25-2009

Yoshinobu Nekado, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110026888	OPTICAL MODULE MOUNTING UNIT AND OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module includes a module housing body including an electrical connection section for electrically connecting the electronic substrate and the optical module to each other and a housing section for housing the optical module, where the module housing body is mounted on the electronic substrate in such a manner that an electrical connection terminal of the electronic substrate and the electrical connection section is connected to each other and a fixing member for maintaining a state in which an electrical connection terminal of the optical module has contact with the electrical connection section in the module housing body. The optical module is housed in the housing section and is fixed in a removable manner by the fixing member, and the optical waveguide and the optical element are configured to be optically coupled to each other in a state in which the optical module is fixed.	02-03-2011

Yoshinobu Nishimura, Yokohama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110067303	REFORMING DEVICE - A reforming apparatus for reforming a raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich reformed gas includes a reformer for generating the reformed gas from the raw fuel, and a steam supply means for supplying the steam to the reformer. The steam supply means has a dry-out heat exchanger that dries out the water by conducting heat exchange with the reformed gas generated when the raw fuel is combusted. The cross-sectional area of passage in the dry-out heat exchanger is larger than that of a pipe connected upstream of the dry-out heat exchanger.	03-24-2011

Yoshinobu Nozaki, Aichi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110190994	RANGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS - Herein disclosed is a range determination apparatus of a vehicle which can prevent a shift range from being undefined in the speed change states of an automatic transmission with no manual valve. The range determination apparatus comprises a gear speed change mechanism having a plurality of planetary gears each transmitting an output torque of a drive source, and a plurality of friction engagement elements operative to have respective operation states changed between an engagement state and a disengagement state, and used for an automatic transmission realizing speed changes with a torque transmission path of the gear speed change mechanism changed by the operation states of the friction engagement elements, and a real shift range determination being carried out on the basis of the operation states of the friction engagement elements, wherein a T-ECU is operative to determine a current shift range based on the detection results obtained by oil pressure sensors and the operation patterns preliminarily memorized when the operation states of the friction engagement elements are not being changed.	08-04-2011

Yoshinobu Ogawa, Ushiku-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110194880	TRANSFER ROLLER - A transfer roller is provide that less cause faulty image which is used in electrophotographic process such as copiers and laser-beam printers, in particular, used on the inner side of an intermediate transfer belt of a full-color image forming apparatus. It is a transfer roller which has a shaft and provided on the periphery thereof at least two conductive foamed rubber layers; the layers having an outermost layer which has a foamed rubber mean cell size of from 10 μm or more to less than 100 μm and an inner layer which has a foamed rubber mean cell size of from 100 μm or more to 500 μm or less; and, as measured in an environment of 23° C./55% RH, the roller having a resistance Rx of from 5.6 or more to 7.0 or less in Log Rx and the inner layer having a resistance Ry of from 5.0 or more to 7.0 or less in Log Ry.	08-11-2011

Yoshinobu Ogawa, Chiba-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100273909	URETHANE (METH)ACRYLATE OBLGOMER AND SHEET USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer which is obtained by reacting at least one polyoxyalkylene polyol (A), at least one monool (B1) soluble in the component (A) and/or at least one silane coupling agent (B2) reactive with an isocyanate group, at least one polyisocyanate (C) and at least one hydroxylated mono(meth)acrylate compound (D) at a ratio at which the equivalent weights of hydroxy groups, active hydrogen groups and isocyanate groups in the respective components satisfy the following formulae (1)-(3). The urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer does not substantially contain an unreacted isocyanate group. B(active hydrogen)+D(OH)=C(NCO)−A(OH) (1) 1.05≦C(NCO)/A(OH)≦2 (2) {C(NCO)−2A(OH)+2 m}×0.35≦D(OH)≦{C(NCO)−2A(OH)+2 m}×0.70 (3) In the formulae (1)-(3), A(OH) represents the total equivalent weight of hydroxy groups contained in the component (A); B(active hydrogen) represents the total equivalent weight of active hydrogen groups contained in the component (B1) and/or the component (B2); C(NCO) represents the total equivalent weight of isocyanate groups contained in the component (C); D(OH) represents the total equivalent weight of hydroxy groups contained in the component (D); and m represents the number of moles of the component (A).	10-28-2010

Yoshinobu Ohtachi, Chiba JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090081056	Molecular Pump And Flange - To form a shock absorbing structure more easily.	03-26-2009
20110103934	VACUUM PUMP - Provided is a vacuum pump which can detect precisely physical contact between a rotor portion and a stator portion, and contact between the rotor portion and the stator portion that occurs as the amount of deposited solid product reaches the clearance between the rotor portion and the stator portion.	05-05-2011

Yoshinobu Okumura, Yamatokoriyama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080258380	SHEET FEEDER - A sheet feeder has a feed passage and includes feed roller pairs, sensors, and a controller. The feed roller pairs are arranged along the feed passage and feed sheets of paper in a feed direction along the passage by nipping the sheets. Each of the sensors is fitted at or near one of the feed roller pairs and senses a specified point on each of the sheets when the sheet is nipped by at least the associated roller pair. The controller includes a memory for storing reference feed timings as proper feed timings at each of which the specified points on the sheets should pass one of the sensors. The controller finds the real feed timing when each of the sensors senses the specified point on the sheet nipped by at least the associated roller pair. When each of the sensors senses the specified point on the sheet nipped by at least the associated roller pair, the controller finds the time difference between the associated reference feed timing and the associated real feed timing and controls, according to the found time difference, the feed speed at which the feed roller pair or pairs nipping the sheet feed it.	10-23-2008

Yoshinobu Okumura, Machida-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080268326	CATALYST LAYER, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, FUEL CELL HAVING MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, METHOD OF PRODUCING CATALYST LAYER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY - There are provided a catalyst layer that improves power generation efficiency, a membrane electrode assembly, a fuel cell using the membrane electrode assembly, and a method of producing the membrane electrode assembly. Specifically, there are provided a catalyst layer including at least a first catalyst material and a second catalyst material which is different from the first catalyst material, in which the first catalyst material includes a polyacid having a thiol group, and the first catalyst material and the second catalyst material are bound to each other through a thiol bond; a membrane electrode assembly having the catalyst layer; a fuel cell having the membrane electrode assembly; a method of producing the catalyst layer; and a method of producing the membrane electrode assembly.	10-30-2008
20090239118	CATALYST LAYER FOR SOLID POLYMER FUEL CELL, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL - A catalyst layer of a solid polymer fuel cell includes a catalyst structural body, a membrane present on at least part of a surface of the catalyst structural body and including a first water-repellent material having a functional group, particles having a second water-repellent material, and an electrolyte.	09-24-2009
20090311578	WATER REPELLENT CATALYST LAYER FOR POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A water repellent catalyst layer for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, including a water repellent coating film provided on catalyst particles, which are coated with a proton-conductive electrolyte, and a manufacturing method for a water repellent catalyst layer for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell including the steps of: coating catalyst particles with a proton-conductive electrolyte; providing a fluorine-based compound having at least one polar group and having a molecular weight of 10,000 or less on the catalyst particles to form a fluorine compound coating film; and imparting hydrophobic property by stabilizing the fluorine compound coating film. The hydrophobic property is imparted even to the inside of fine pores of the catalyst layer to improve water evacuation performance, so that an effective surface area and a catalyst utilization ratio can be increased.	12-17-2009

Yoshinobu Sakamoto, Kakogawa-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110043079	TUNING-FORK TYPE PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATOR PLATE AND TUNING-FORK TYPE PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATOR DEVICE - A tuning-fork type piezoelectric resonator plate includes: at least a plurality of leg portions serving as vibrating portions; a bonding portion bonded to the outside, and a base portion from which the leg portions and the bonding portion protrude. The plurality of leg portions protrude from a first end face of the base portion and are provided side-by-side on the first end face. The bonding portion protrude from a second end face located opposite the first end face of the base portion at a position located opposite a center position of the plurality of leg portions in a width direction of the first end face of the base portion. And, at least a base end portion of the bonding portion is used as a bond region that is bonded to the outside.	02-24-2011

Yoshinobu Shibata, Himeji-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090146562	ELECTRODELESS DISCHARGE LAMP APPARATUS AND LIGHTING FIXTURE WITH THE ELECTRODELESS DISCHARGE LAMP APPARATUS - An electrodeless discharge lamp apparatus is provided which is increased in heat dissipation, making it possible to adapt to an increase in output of the apparatus. The electrodeless discharge lamp apparatus comprises a bulb containing a discharge gas and a coupler accommodated in a cavity formed in the bulb for generating a high frequency electromagnetic field. The coupler has: an induction coil; a core inserted into the coil; a heat conductor for conducting heat generated from the coil and the core; and a bobbin made of resin which accommodates the core and the heat conductor therein, and which has the coil wound therearound. The bobbin is designed to be separated in a radial direction of the coil, so that it is possible to separately mold the respective parts of the bobbin. Thus, it is not necessary to form, in the bobbin, a draft angle which has been necessary in the prior art when molding a tubular-shaped bobbin, and it is possible to make the thickness of the bobbin thin and uniform, so that the proportion of the bobbin in the volume of the cavity can be reduced to increase the proportion of the heat conductor.	06-11-2009

Yoshinobu Shimizu, Sakai-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100094505	Vehicle steering apparatus - A motor is driven based on an axis current value in a rotating coordinate system that rotates in accordance with a control angle that is a rotational angle used in a control. The control angle is calculated by adding an addition angle to an immediately preceding value of the control angle in each predetermined calculation cycle. A command steering torque is set based on a predetermined steering angle-torque characteristic. The addition angle is calculated based on the deviation of a detected steering torque from a command steering torque. The addition angle based on the deviation is changed when a predetermined condition is satisfied.	04-15-2010
20100198462	ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTROLLER AND ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTROLLER FOR VEHICLE STEERING APPARATUS - An electric motor controller for controlling an electric motor that includes a rotor and a stator that faces the rotor. The electric motor controller includes a current drive unit; an addition angle calculation unit; a control angle calculation unit; a torque detection unit; a changing unit and a suspending unit	08-05-2010
20110098888	MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE-STEERING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME - A motor controller controls a motor including a rotor and a stator opposed to the rotor. The motor controller includes an electric current driving unit which drives the motor with an axis electric current value defined in a rotating coordinate system defined with respect to a control angle that is a rotation angle for control, a control angle computing unit which computes a current value of the control angle by adding an addition angle to a previous value of the control angle in each predetermined computing cycle, and an addition angle computing unit which computes the addition angle according to a torque to be generated by the motor or a response of the motor to the axis electric current value.	04-28-2011
20110112724	MOTOR CONTROL UNIT AND VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM - A motor control unit includes a detected steering torque correction unit that corrects the detected steering torque that is detected by a torque sensor and then subjected to a limitation process by a steering torque limiter. When the absolute value of the detected steering torque is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, the detected steering torque correction unit corrects the detected steering torque to 0. When the absolute value of the detected steering torque is larger than the predetermined value, the detected steering torque correction unit outputs the detected steering torque without correction. A PI control unit calculates the addition angle based on the deviation of the control torque obtained through correction by the detected steering torque correction unit from the command steering torque.	05-12-2011
20110118937	MOTOR CONTROL UNIT AND VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM - When the estimated motor temperature becomes equal to or higher than the first predetermined temperature, an addition angle correction unit temporarily decreases the absolute value of the addition angle output from an addition angle limiter at time intervals. The addition angle correction unit makes the time interval shorter as the estimated motor temperature increases. When the time interval becomes equal to or shorter than the predetermined threshold, that is, when the estimated motor temperature becomes equal to or higher than the second predetermined temperature that is higher than the first predetermined temperature, the addition angle correction unit notifies a command current value changing unit of a current stop command. Thus, the γ-axis command current value is changed to 0, and therefore the steering mode is shifted to the manual steer mode.	05-19-2011

Yoshinobu Shimoitani, Okayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100116913	POWDER GREEN COMPACT, SINTERED COMPACT AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THEM - A process for producing powder green compacts includes centrifugally compacting a slip containing a material powder, a binder resin and a dispersion medium in a mold, into a compact containing the material powder and the binder resin. A process for producing sintered compacts includes sintering the green compact. A powder green compact contains a material powder and a binder resin, the binder resin being present between particles of the material powder and binding the material particles. A sintered compact is obtained by sintering the green compact.	05-13-2010

Yoshinobu Shizawa, Kawasaki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090243626	AMPLIFICATION APPARATUS AND AMPLIFIER FAILURE DETECTING METHOD - An amplification apparatus including a plurality of amplifiers includes a carrier amplifier, a peak amplifier including a gate bias circuit including a resistor for supplying a gate bias voltage, a comparator for outputting a resultant signal determined by comparison of a predetermined threshold voltage with a voltage across the resistor included within the gate bias circuit, and a failure detecting circuit for detecting whether a failure in the plurality of amplifiers is caused or not based on the resultant signal.	10-01-2009
20100033243	Amplifying Apparatus - The amplifying apparatus includes an amplifier having a circuit constant determined so as to satisfy a condition for E-class operation; power detecting unit which detects an output electricity from the amplifier; and controlling unit which controls the circuit constant in accordance with the output power detected by the power detecting unit.	02-11-2010
20100240329	AMPLIFYING DEVICE AND TRANSMITTER APPARATUS - An amplifying device includes an amplifier including a first amplifying element with a drain voltage thereof being controlled, and a second amplifying element, the amplifier amplifying a transmission signal with the first and second amplifying elements, synthesizing the transmission signals amplified by the first and second amplifying elements, and outputting the synthesized transmission signal; a distortion compensator part which performs distortion compensation on the input signal in accordance with a compensation coefficient derived from a difference between a input signal and a feedback signal generated from a portion of a signal output from the amplifier; and a controller part which controls the drain voltage of the first amplifying element in response to a result of a comparison between a power level of the input signal prior to the distortion compensation operation by the distortion compensator part and a threshold value.	09-23-2010
20110068882	FILTER AND AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT - There is provided a filter which includes a transmission line, a stub branched from the transmission line, the stub electrically coupled with the transmission line, and a resonator configured to electromagnetically couple with the stub and to resonate at an odd harmonic frequency of a fundamental wave, the fundamental wave propagating through the transmission line.	03-24-2011

Yoshinobu Sochi, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080318078	Alloy-Coated Boiler Part and Method of Welding Self-Fluxing Alloy-Coated Boiler Part - [Problems] To provide an alloy-coated boiler part that at all regions to be protected, is furnished with a weld deposition coating of alloy material excelling in erosion/corrosion resistance and that even when joined by welding, is free from thermal shock cracking.	12-25-2008
20100300379	BOILER WATERWALL PANEL - It is an object to reduce the burden of a welding operation in producing a boiler waterwall panel and to reduce the burden of maintaining a furnace housing using the boiler waterwall panels thereby to improve the operating rate of the boiler. In a boiler waterwall panel	12-02-2010

Yoshinobu Suzuki, Aichi-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090117026	Method for manufacturing carbon nano-tube - A method for manufacturing a carbon nano-tube by a chemical vapor deposition includes: introducing a carbon source gas into a reaction chamber; growing the carbon nano-tube by using a catalyser; and maintaining a pressure of the carbon source gas in the reaction chamber in a range between 1.0 Torr and 2.0 Torr so that the carbon nano-tube is formed. Since the pressure is maintained in a range between 1.0 Torr and 2.0 Torr, the catalyser is not caulked. Thus, the carbon nano-tube is stably formed.	05-07-2009
20090230353	FIBER AGGREGATE AND FABRICATING METHOD OF THE SAME - A fiber aggregate contains fine carbon fibers and fine boron nitride fibers. Desirably the boron nitride fibers form an outer layer portion of the fiber aggregate and the fine carbon fibers form a core portion of the fiber aggregate. Desirably the fine carbon fibers and the fine boron nitride fibers are twisted with each other. Desirably the fine carbon fibers are carbon nanotubes and the fine boron nitride fibers are boron nitride nanotubes. Desirably the fiber aggregate further contains boron-containing fine carbon fibers. The fine boron nitride fibers are formed by substituting carbon atoms of fine carbon fibers by boron atoms and nitrogen atoms. The fiber aggregate is fabricated by mixing a fiber aggregate that contains fine carbon fibers with boron and heating the fiber aggregate mixed with the boron in a nitrogen atmosphere to transform some of the fine carbon fibers into fine boron nitride fibers.	09-17-2009
20110197605	Heat exchanger and refrigerant cycle device using the same - A heat exchanger usable as an evaporator in a refrigerant cycle device includes a heat exchanging portion configured to perform heat exchange between refrigerant and air so as to evaporate the refrigerant. A thermal deformation member is provided in en entire range on a surface of the heat exchanging portion, to be deformed bordering on a predetermined temperature when the surface of the heat exchanging portion is frosted to produce ice. The thermal deformation member is deformed by a temperature change between a first temperature lower than the predetermined temperature and a second temperature higher than the predetermined temperature, to cause distortion between the surface of the heat exchanging portion and the ice when the ice is attached to the surface of the heat exchanging portion. Thus, the ice attached to the surface of the heat exchanging portion can be effectively removed while heat energy for removing the ice can be reduced.	08-18-2011

Yoshinobu Suzuki, Shioya-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090084505	Apparatus For Causing Planar Parts To Be Bonded Onto A Seat Pad - An apparatus for mounting planar components onto a pad for a seat is disclosed. The apparatus includes a lower die for allowing the pad to be carried thereon in a condition where a section of the pad onto which the planar components are to be mounted faces upward, a support frame for supporting the planar components, the support frame having both side portions, the support frame being configured as a handling jig which is separatably combined with the lower die means from au upward direction of the pad carried on the lower die means when the planar components are to be mounted onto the section of the pad, and an upper die means for causing the planar components supported by the support frame to be thermal press-bonded onto the section of the pad, the lower die having spaced apart guide pins for engaging the both side portions of the support frame and causing the support frame to be guided in a condition where the support frame is parallel relative to the section of the pad carried on the lower die, and hook arms for causing the support frame to be hooked with respect to the lower die.	04-02-2009

Yoshinobu Suzuki, Minamisouma-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100261935	METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALKOXYINDANONE DERIVATIVE - [Problems to be Solved] The present invention aims to provide a method for efficiently producing a high-purity alkoxyindanone derivative while maintaining an industrially superior volumetric efficiency.	10-14-2010

Yoshinobu Takaoku, Aomori JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090068075	Sodium Salt Recycling Process for Use in Wet Reprocessing Process of Spent Nuclear Fuel - The present invention is directed to a process for recycling of a sodium salt by decomposition of a sodium nitride liquid waste. The process comprises: a neutralization step in which a nitric acid liquid waste or an off-gas having nitric acid dissolved therein which is produced through a wet reprocessing process comprising a dissolution step for dissolving a spent nuclear fuel in nitric acid is neutralized by adding or contacting the nitrate liquid waste or the off-gas to or with at least one sodium salt selected from sodium hydroxide, sodium hydrogencarbonate and sodium carbonate, thereby yielding a sodium nitrate liquid waste; a sodium nitrate-decomposition step in which the sodium nitrate liquid waste is reductively decomposed with a reducing agent, thereby decomposing sodium nitrate into a nitrogen gas and the sodium salt; and a recycle step for recycling the sodium salt into the neutralization step or wet reprocessing process. The sodium nitrate liquid waste obtained in the neutralization step may be concentrated by evaporation to give a concentrated sodium nitrate liquid waste, and the condensed sodium nitrate liquid waste may be reductively decomposed in the sodium nitrate-decomposition step.	03-12-2009

Yoshinobu Tateshima, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090236175	EXHAUST STRUCTURE OF MOTORCYCLE - An exhaust pipe connected to an exhaust port of an engine and an expansion chamber is disposed in the vicinity of the engine. A main tube is provided that extends rearwardly from a head pipe disposed at the front side of a main body. An engine having a cylinder extending upwardly from a crankcase is disposed under the main tube with an exhaust port open at the front side of the cylinder. A first exhaust pipe is provided that is connected to the exhaust port. A down tube is disposed on the center line in the left-right direction of the main body. The exhaust port disposed behind the down tube is deviatingly open at one side from the center line. The first exhaust pipe extends forward from one side of the down tube, and to the other side of the down tube, subsequently turns, and extends again to one side.	09-24-2009

Yoshinobu Watanaba, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110112401	ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - An ultrasonic diagnosis device includes a diagnostic image generation unit (	05-12-2011

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Fujisawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090302197	LIQUID LENS DRIVING METHOD, LIGUID LENS DRIVER, AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING LIQUID LENS - A liquid lens driver	12-10-2009

Yoshinobu Yamashita, Ibaraki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110104590	Method for Producing Ion Conductivity Providing Agent for Catalyst Electrode Layer in Anion-Exchange Membrane Type Fuel Cell - Disclosed is a method for producing an ion-conductivity providing agent for a catalyst electrode layer of an anion-exchange membrane type fuel cell comprising: producing anionic conductive resin including a quaternary onium base having a halogeno ion as its counterion, and bringing the halogen type anionic conductive resin into contact with carbonate solution and/or bicarbonate solution to directly obtain anionic conductive resin in which at least a part of the counterion of said quaternary onium base is CO	05-05-2011

Yoshinobu Yoneima, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110158694	OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - The present invention is an optical scanning apparatus that is positioned and fixed to a metal frame of an image forming apparatus, in which a rotating polygon mirror being a deflection means and a drive motor rotationally driving the rotating polygon mirror are accommodated inside a housing made of resin. In the present invention, a bearing of the drive motor and a positioning member provided upright to the metal frame are inserted into and fitted with each other from opposite directions in a positioning boss formed in the housing, and the bearing is in contact with the positioning member.	06-30-2011